Series 1 includes personal and professional correspondence, lectures and notes relating to his research on Virginia history, and material relating to his community activities in Williamsburg, Va. Includes correspondence of his wife Estelle (Dinwiddie) Morton, land grants, 1756 and 1774, signed by Robert Dinwiddie and Lord Dunmore, Confederate currency and bonds, genealogical materials on the Watkins and Morton families and photographs.

Notes on of Virginia officials, Virginia religion, Indians, diary of Reverend Robert Rose, Gooch Papers Act Preventing Negro Insurrection, Cal. State Papers, force tracts, notes from Robert Beverley's "The History and Present State of Virginia". 1607-1756. 1 item.

Journal references to notable Virginians, review of Adrienne Koch's "Jefferson and Madison, notes on social history, notes on Reverend Robert Rose's diary, lists of useful books on Virginia history, articles "Senate Race Getting Milder", "An 1808 Tour of Virginia is Delightful," "Governor's message, notes on manufactureres, internal improvements. 1748-1869, 1881, 1926, 1943, 1952. 2 items.

Notes on Virginia history, message of Governor Johnson, adoption of the 1851 Constituion, Virginia agriculture, Virginia on the eve of the Civil War. 1851-1857. 1 item.

Virginia on the Eve of the Southern War for Independence." 1830-1860. 1 item.

The Press in the Making of Virginia, "Ephraim McDowell," "The Newspaper Press and the Civil War in West Virginis," "A Confederate Catechism," "The Supreme Court of the Confederacy," "The Rise of the High School in Virginia," notes on the Reconstruction, photos of Virginia, "The Voting Status of Negroes in Virginia," 1929, 1931, 1934, 1938, 1943, 1945, 1949, 1951, 1953, 1958. 1 item.

1856, 1859-1861.

Improvements and implements, organization and education, Southern dependence, products. 1850-1854, 1857. 2 items.

Documents, messages, dispatches. 1851-1858, 1860-1861. 1 item.

1856, 1860-1861. 1 item.

Schisms, new buildings. 1851, 1855, 1857, 1861. 1 item.

1850. 1 item.

John Boran bibliography, the martial spirit, secession and war, military and governmental events of the Civil War. 1850-1865. 2 items.

Proposed steamship line to Europe, exports, development of the carrying trade, Norfolk harbor commerce, dispatches, Virginia Commerce Convention, direct foreign trade. 1806, 1850-1852, 1856-1860. 1 item.

Participants, resolutions, issues, notes. 1849, 1850-1852, 1854, 1858, 1861. 1 item.

'Pistols and Coffee at Dawn for Two." notes. 1856, 1858, 1934. 2 items.

- 'A study of Three Virginia Colleges, Part 1 Before the Civil War - bibliography, 'Higher Education for Women Before 1860.' 1953. 2 items.

Series 1 includes personal and professional correspondence, lectures and notes relating to his research on Virginia history, and material relating to his community activities in Williamsburg, Va. Includes correspondence of his wife Estelle (Dinwiddie) Morton, land grants, 1756 and 1774, signed by Robert Dinwiddie and Lord Dunmore, Confederate currency and bonds, genealogical materials on the Watkins and Morton families and photographs.

Free schools - dispatches 'Primary Education in Virginia After the Civil War - outline and bibliography, miscellaneous notes, 'Poor Relief Education', 'State Obtains Mercer Sketch.', 'Governor's Message and Annual Reports,' abstract of School Commisssioner's report. 1818-1847, 1849, 1850-1855, 1858-1859, 1901, 1957. 2 items.

1860-1861. 1 item.

Ell Thayer's scheme for immigrant aid, Rd. D. dispatches, misc. notes, letter concerning Ell Thayer. 1852, 1857, 1860, 1938. 1 item.

Lists of railroad documents, proposed railroad lines, misc. notes, abstracts of railroad documents, construction of railroad lines, frequent wrecks on railroads, Roanoke Railroad, governor's messages, Southern Railroad, telegraph, 'The Louisa Railroad.' 1849, 1851-1861, 1866. 3 items.

'Virginia State Debt and Internal Improvements, 1820-1838, James River and Kanawha company, travel on the richmond - Lynchburg canal boat packet, map of Virginia's railroads, general internal improvements, highways. 1820-1838, 1840-1848, 1851, 1859-1879. 8 items.

Baptist's divided message of Governor Joseph Johnson, bibliography on 'The Trial and Execution of John Brown.' 1852, 1857. 3 items.

'A Letter Opposing Public Hangings,' 'Two Negroes Hung For Murder in Culpeper,' public hanging, prive executions, imprisonment, changes in criminal and civil codes. 1834, 1846, 1848, 1849-1850, 1851, 1853, 1858, 1860. 1 item.